Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... cool air and will rise whenever cool air surrounds it . The difference can be great enough to lift a balloon ; indeed , balloonists depended upon this phenom- enon throughout the nineteenth century . Thus , as sunlight warms the ground ...
... cool air and will rise whenever cool air surrounds it . The difference can be great enough to lift a balloon ; indeed , balloonists depended upon this phenom- enon throughout the nineteenth century . Thus , as sunlight warms the ground ...
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... cool dramatically to reach the dew point , where saturation occurs . Moist air has a dew point just below the air tem- perature , thus condensation is much more likely to take place . On a crisp , clear evening , the ground and the air ...
... cool dramatically to reach the dew point , where saturation occurs . Moist air has a dew point just below the air tem- perature , thus condensation is much more likely to take place . On a crisp , clear evening , the ground and the air ...
Pàgina 153
... cool and sink . The Gulf Stream , so important for the climate of northern Europe , might no longer reach European shores ; it could even short - circuit the North Atlantic and feed directly into the deep southward current , leaving the ...
... cool and sink . The Gulf Stream , so important for the climate of northern Europe , might no longer reach European shores ; it could even short - circuit the North Atlantic and feed directly into the deep southward current , leaving the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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